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  • Title: [With the things on the back: estate remodelling and inter-urban mobility].
    Author: Cela J.
    Journal: Poblac Desarro; 1992; (2):68-82. PubMed ID: 12178316.
    Abstract:
    This work argues that intraurban mobility resulting from urban renewal in Santo Domingo is one of the city's major problems. Santo Domingo's growth from 30,000 in 1920 to 1,800,000 in the late 1980s was unplanned, and the expansion of urban infrastructure generally followed demographic expansion. The Dominican government has regularly provoked massive dislocations in the course of urban renewal, especially at the end of the Trujillo era and under the governments of Balaguer. More than 50,000 families have been forced to move in the past 30 years, representing 20% of the population. Among the consequences of this policy are a form of rootlessness of the population resulting from lack of title to the land and the constant threat of having to move again. The feeling of impermanence has psychological and cultural effects and also discourages residents from making significant improvements to their housing. The disorder of the city is increased because most of the families forced to move from areas undergoing renewal establish themselves in other marginal zones, which then undergo chaotic growth. From the fall of Trujillo to the disturbances of 1965-66, rural migration to the periphery of the city was massive, and it resumed again with the return of political stability. The massive construction projects beginning in 1967 were intended to beautify areas of high visibility, improve traffic flow, develop aesthetic elements, and remove low income populations from the center for the city. Around one-third of the national budget was devoted to construction in these years. Thousands of families were relocated in new areas belonging to the government at great distances from the city center and with few or no public services. The urban policy encouraged speculation and deterioration of urban management due to confusion between government institutions and private interests. Between 1978-86, government construction policy changed, with the amount of investment reduced and low cost housing emphasized. But massive construction began again with Balaguer's return to power. Some 20,000 families have been displaced and another 14,000 have been told to move. The forced removals have involved around 10% of the population. Their effects have included rapid expansion of the marginal urban periphery, artificially high rents, aggravation of problems in providing public services, loss of identity of neighborhoods, reinforcement of individual strategies at the expense of communal welfare, and weakening of survival resources of the most impoverished sectors.
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